[OE-core] [PATCH v3 1/2] image.bbclass: add prohibited-paths QA test

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 16 10:32:14 UTC 2017


On 11/15/2017 05:10 PM, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Sometimes we wish to ensure that files or directories are not installed
> somewhere that may prove detrimental to the operation of the system. For
> example, this may be the case if files are placed in a directory that is
> utilised as a mount point at run time, thus making them inaccessible once
> when the mount point is being utilised.
> 
> Implement the prohibited paths QA test, which enables such locations to be
> specified in a "PROHIBITED_PATHS" variable. This implementation allows for
> a colon separated list of paths to be provided. Shell style wildcards can
> be used.

The test does nothing if PROHIBITED_PATHS is not set. Can you set it in 
core-image.bbclass to some reasonable default common to reference 
images? Something like /mnt /media /tmp /run /var/run /var/tmp (not sure 
at the moment what the mount points in those images are).

Alex



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